PushBlock locks addictive apps until you complete a set of push-ups, counted by the camera, with per-app push-up goals and progress stats. Paused is a different shape of app, so this is a comparison rather than a pitch — the table starts with what PushBlock does better.
| PushBlock | Paused | |
|---|---|---|
| Known for | PushBlock locks addictive apps until you complete a set of push-ups, counted by the camera, with per-app push-up goals and progress stats. | Block Schedules that switch your chosen apps off at set times and back on afterwards, one-tap Focus sessions for right now, and a streak that counts the days you kept the block. |
| Genuinely better at | Per-app goals. PushBlock lets each blocked app cost a different number of push-ups. | Paused costs nothing to open because the apps are simply not available during your schedule. |
| Day to day it feels like | Distracting apps stay locked until you have done something else first — exercise, steps, a habit, a task, reading — and you spend what you earned in minutes. | A small, boring wall. You pick the apps, pick the hours, and they stop opening — no coins, no plants, no hardware, no reasons to type. A calm Paused screen where the app used to be. |
…push-ups are the currency you want. Paused has no currency.
We would rather you kept an app that fits than switched and quietly turned it off after a fortnight. A blocker you have disabled is not a blocker.
Said up front, because this is the part comparison pages usually leave out.
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